Question about flat file schema definitions

Hello,
I have defined a flat file schema which works fine. However, I got now a new requirement for this schema: It has to support future potential additional fields in the end of the records.
The solution I used is quit "ugly". I added an additional filler at the end of the record and configured it as "minOccurs = 0" and set Allow early termination of optional fileds to true.
This works but I don't like it.
It seems to me that there must be a property for ignoring any additional fields after the last one, so I won't need this filler field.
Does anyone familiar with such option/ property?
Thanks all.

Hi David,
Min occurs and allow_early_termination options for perfectly valid to mark the last record as optional. There is no issue with approach and its not ugly. I have seen this approach being implemented in many projects without any issues.
Refer this MSDN blog on this context and what you're doing is correct.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/skaufman/archive/2004/05/07/127899.aspx
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